Maybe the best bet would be to try and adapt the gcc 2.95 patches to a (more) modern gcc (a challenge in itself) and extend them to g++ (another significant challenge). 68k support in recent gcc/g++ has become worse and worse due to lack of interest and maintainers.

Do we really need classes ? I use C++, but get by without them ! C++ is better than C, but mainly as it cures some C problems, such as poor input and output operators. And as it is not an interpreted language, bug-finding can be pretty horrendous.

Why use C++ at all ? The simple answer is that it is blisteringly fast on a PC.... ( hundreds of times faster than SMSQ/E on QPC2 ) But how would it perform on a 68000-based motherboard ?

Starting to program with Fortran 2 then Fortran 4 and Fortran 77, and also with several Basic dialects, when in the meantime I discovered C (and Forth), I found that I had the right powerful tools - and even before C++, on the machines that I used professionnaly (that were all more or less non-standard), I saw the (plain) C compilers get faster all the time. Then I rather jumped over C++ to adopt Ada (on big real time projects) and then Jbed, a true object oriented Java (sporting not "priorities" but "earliest deadline first" - the best way to manage a huge number of objects within a real time application).

Hi All,I was wanting to use C++ classes for multiple LCD screens. That is just so much easier with C++. Using assembler (or C) I have to maintain two, or more, separate drivers for the screens. It can be done, just more messy and harder to maintain than with classes.

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